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<p>So the question as far as I&#39;m concerned is that lots of people have now in a sense rejected that older type of social organisation, the social contract that you were talking about based on debt and consumption. And the reason I think a widespread demand for different ways of relating to others, relating to the community and dealing with power. So I&#39;m optimistic about that. It seems to me you&rsquo;d expect that whether or not the left in other parts of the world win elections, I think we&#39;ve moved perhaps away from the model of the 1990s and the 2000s and a greater sense of community, of going back to certain common values and virtues and idea of the good, the public good, of the Commons, has returned. This is extremely hopeful.&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p><em><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/law/our-staff/ft-academic/douzinas" target="_blank">Costas Douzinas</a> is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is well known for his work in Human Rights, Aesthetics, Postmodern Legal Theory and Political Philosophy.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/%E2%80%98what-happens-after-square%E2%80%99s-empty%E2%80%99-interview-costas-douzinas" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewFormer YugoslaviaGreeceTurkeyCitizenshipProtestResistanceSocial organisationFri, 15 Nov 2013 13:13:57 +0000gkrasniq165 at http://www.citsee.euCITSEE discussion: Varieties of Citizenship in a wider Europehttp://www.citsee.eu/interview/citsee-discussion-varieties-citizenship-wider-europe
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<p>&lsquo;Varieties of citizenship in a wider and more territorially differentiated Europe&rsquo; was a panel discussion organised as part of the CITSEE symposium &lsquo;Varieties of Citizenship in Southeast Europe&rsquo; (6-7 June, 2013) in Edinburgh.&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p><strong>&lsquo;<em>Varieties of citizenship in a wider and more territorially differentiated Europe&rsquo; was a panel discussion organised as part of the <a href="http://www.citsee.ed.ac.uk/" target="_blank">CITSEE</a> symposium &lsquo;<a href="http://www.citsee.eu/news/citsee-symposium-varieties-citizenship-south-east-europe" target="_blank">Varieties of Citizenship in Southeast Europe</a>&amp;rs</em></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/citsee-discussion-varieties-citizenship-wider-europe" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewCroatiaKosovoMacedoniaMontenegroSerbiaSloveniaActivismCitizenshipExclusionMemoryTue, 03 Sep 2013 13:22:54 +0000gkrasniq154 at http://www.citsee.euOrganising and living: An interview with Silvia Federicihttp://www.citsee.eu/interview/organising-and-living-interview-silvia-federici
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<p>The question of&nbsp;organising&nbsp;reproduction in a cooperative way is especially important, because we cannot&nbsp;industrialise&nbsp;reproductive work, not at least the most laborious aspects of it, those related to childcare.&nbsp; This is my critiques of Marx and the Left when they dream of a society where the machines will do all the work. Machines cannot do child-care. Thus, there is a huge amount of work that cannot be&nbsp;technologised. The only way to&nbsp;organise&nbsp;it, then, is to make it more cooperative. The individualized, isolated way in which much reproductive work is&nbsp;organised&nbsp;is killing us. So the idea of care-communities has many dimensions. There is the dimension of survival, but there is also the&nbsp;prefiguration&nbsp;of a new society. There is also a dimension of resistance and there is the reconstruction of the social fabric.&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p>Silvia Federici was born in Parma, Italy, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is Emerita Professor at Hofstra University and has worked as a teacher in Nigeria. Federici is co-founder of the International Feminist Collective (1972), and the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (1990).</p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/organising-and-living-interview-silvia-federici" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewActivist citizenshipmovementssocialWomenWed, 28 Aug 2013 16:56:33 +0000Stjepanovic151 at http://www.citsee.eu'A vibrant democracy needs agonistic confrontation' - An interview with Chantal Mouffehttp://www.citsee.eu/interview/vibrant-democracy-needs-agonistic-confrontation-interview-chantal-mouffe
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<p>My view is that what democracy should try to do is to create the institutions which allows for conflict - when it emerges - to take an agonistic form, a form of adversarial confrontation instead of antagonism between enemies. But when antagonisms already exist to transform them is of course is much more difficult but it&#39;s not impossible and I think one of the good examples is Northern Ireland. Because in Northern Ireland we had for a long time an antagonistic conflict between Protestants and Catholics. They were treating each other as enemies. Now since the Good Friday Agreement and with the institutions that have been created there is no more antagonism, there is an&nbsp;agonism. It doesn&#39;t mean that these people agree, they do disagree but they disagree in a way that they no longer see the other community as an enemy to be destroyed.</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.westminster.ac.uk/?a=6148" target="_blank">Chantal Mouffe</a> is a Belgian political theorist well known for her conception of radical and agonistic democracy. She is currently Professor of Political Theory at Westminster University where she also directs the <a href="http://www.westminster.ac.uk/csd" target="_blank">Centre for the Study of Democracy</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/vibrant-democracy-needs-agonistic-confrontation-interview-chantal-mouffe" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewBosnia-HerzegovinaFormer YugoslaviaGreeceKosovoSloveniaAgonismAntagonismCitizenship strugglesDemocracyMon, 22 Jul 2013 16:11:52 +0000gkrasniq147 at http://www.citsee.euActivist citizens in the Balkans http://www.citsee.eu/interview/activist-citizens-balkans
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<p>&lsquo;Why did they mobilise?&rsquo;- <em>a panel discussion on </em><a href="http://www.mandelbaum.de/books/806/7460">Social Struggles in Ex-Yugoslavia</a><em>, a new book that explores the diverse forms of activist citizenship that have swept the region over the last few years. The discussion took place between contributors Boris Kanzleiter, the head of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation&rsquo;s Belgrade office, Andrea Milat, an activist and journalist from Croatia, Primož Kra&scaron;ovec, a Slovenian activist and theorist and its editor Michael G. Kraft. The discussion was chaired by Stipe Ćurković, the editor of the Croatian edition of </em>Le Monde diplomatique<em>, at the Subversive Forum in Zagreb in May 2013.</em></p> </div>
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<p>&lsquo;Why did they mobilise?&rsquo;- <em>a panel discussion on </em><a href="http://www.mandelbaum.de/books/806/7460" target="_blank">Social Struggles in Ex-Yugoslavia</a><em>, a new book that explores the diverse forms of activist citizenship that have swept the region over the last few years.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/activist-citizens-balkans" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewCroatiaFormer YugoslaviaSerbiaActivist citizenshipCitizenship strugglesDiscussionProtestsTue, 09 Jul 2013 17:30:31 +0000gkrasniq141 at http://www.citsee.eu‘Artisans for incorporation’- An interview with Saskia Sassen http://www.citsee.eu/interview/%E2%80%98artisans-incorporation%E2%80%99-interview-saskia-sassen
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<p>When I speak of artisans for incorporation I am referring to the fact that any period in the turbulent history of migrations in our diverse countries, there were always some members of the host community who believed in the project of incorporating the outsider. This was not just for charity but mostly to make membership more expansive.&nbsp; And whenever the outsiders were included, the host community benefited.&nbsp;</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.saskiasassen.com/" target="_blank">Saskia Sassen</a> is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.</p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/%E2%80%98artisans-incorporation%E2%80%99-interview-saskia-sassen" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewGreeceCitizenshipCityGlobalisationResidenceResistanceRightsMon, 17 Dec 2012 15:48:54 +0000gkrasniq113 at http://www.citsee.eu‘The reassertion of the political’- an interview with Tariq Ali on the future of European citizenshiphttp://www.citsee.eu/interview/%E2%80%98-reassertion-political%E2%80%99-interview-tariq-ali-future-european-citizenship
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<p>I think the European Union promised a great deal and delivered very little.&nbsp; Voting rights seem to have become totally irrelevant because whoever you elected, it didn&rsquo;t matter which party, they were carrying out the same elite policies. Greece has made a difference and this will inspire people.&nbsp; But in order for that to happen you do need to have political instruments and political parties.&nbsp; It can&rsquo;t just happen by occupying public spaces.&nbsp; You know, you need politics for that. And so what we are witnessing in Greece is, in a way, the reassertion of the political and I think that will be extremely important in saying &lsquo;yes, we are citizens; we don&rsquo;t just have, you know, basic rights.&nbsp; We have political rights and we want to exercise these political rights and link them to social and economic rights.&#39;</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://tariqali.org/" target="_blank">Tariq Ali</a> is a novelist, journalist and political campaigner whose most recent books include <em>Protocols of the Elders of Sodom and Other Essays</em> (2009), <em>Night of the Golden Butterfly </em>(2010) and<em> The Obama Syndrome </em>(2010). In May 2012 he spoke at the Zagreb Subversive Forum, where he was interviewed by Nick Holdstock.</p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/%E2%80%98-reassertion-political%E2%80%99-interview-tariq-ali-future-european-citizenship" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewBulgariaFormer YugoslaviaGreeceTurkeyActivismCitizenshipDemocracyEUpoliticsTue, 04 Sep 2012 13:18:59 +0000gkrasniq98 at http://www.citsee.euNaked city: On authenticity and urban citizenship. An interview with Sharon Zukin http://www.citsee.eu/interview/naked-city-authenticity-and-urban-citizenship-interview-sharon-zukin
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<p>Scholars around the world have joined with political activists to speak of citizenship being the general framework of human rights and a more equitable access to resources.&nbsp; In the US I think we have a legalistic understanding of citizenship, for the most part. Academics, of course, use citizenship to talk with other academics around the world about social rights. But most ordinary men and women in the United States think of citizenship in terms of documents &ndash; documents to be able to live and work in the United States. So citizenship, for me, reflects the concerns of my undergraduates and their families, many of whom are immigrants. Citizenship for me is a legal category.It is not the same as talking about social rights or the right to the city; it&rsquo;s a legal understanding of national citizenship.</p> </div>
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<p><a href="http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=420" target="_blank">Sharon Zukin</a> is Professor of Sociology at CUNY Brooklyn College, New York.</p><p><a href="http://www.citsee.eu/interview/naked-city-authenticity-and-urban-citizenship-interview-sharon-zukin" target="_blank">read more</a></p>InterviewCitizenshipCityCultureUrban spaceMon, 02 Jul 2012 12:56:10 +0000gkrasniq92 at http://www.citsee.eu